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UN warned on abuse of intervention right
UNITED NATIONS - China warned the West on Monday against any attempt to abuse the right to intervene in the countries where humanitarian crisis occur. the Reuters reported.
Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing insisted in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly that the authorization of the Security Council was required for any action to prevent a large-scale humanitarian crisis. "We are against any willful intervention on the ground of rash conclusion that a nation is unable or unwilling to protect its own citizens," Li said. Li also expressed opposition to any attempt to change the definition of the right to self-defense in international law to allow for pre-emptive action against new threats such as terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction. "We do not support the reinterpretation or revision of the provisions in the U.N. Charter relating to the right of self-defense," he said. A United Nations summit last week approved the principle that the international community has a "responsibility to protect" civilians where governments are unable or unwilling to do so. The aim was to prevent repetition of the massacres in Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s. China, a veto-bearing permanent member of the Security Council, has been the major power prudent on allowing UN intervention in Sudan's Darfur region or censure of the human rights record of Zimbabwe. It also opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq with Russia, France and Germany. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan asked last week's world summit to define when a pre-emptive invasion could be justified, but the United States, which asserted the right of pre-emption in its National Security Doctrine in 2002, blocked the initiative.
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